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Beeswax posted:I have several internal HDDs that are alive and kicking after 10+ years. Google says 3-5 years but that sounds absurd to me. Maybe I'm just a nurturing tech user. I don't remember ever having a HDD break down on me since 1993. And I have had some computers for a long time. One exception: I plugged the wrong PSU to one external HDD and it fried the circuit. But after I replaced the control board it worked again and the actual HDD still works.
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lobsterminator posted:I don't remember ever having a HDD break down on me since 1993. And I have had some computers for a long time. Same except i used wrong cables (from and old 1000w psu with different polarity or something) for new psu and the entire pc got smoked. The plastic on the harddrives caught on fire and i had to dump them in the sink lol.
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I worked somewhere with a process we called 'shucking drive sleds' we went through so many HDDs. Tons were deskstars.
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If you want to extend the lifetime of your old harddrive rub it thoroughly with the strongest magnet you can find. This loosens up the internals and makes it run smoother and longer.
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Large Testicles posted:grape dimatap is so good that they had to refomulate it so it didnt give you stokes My daughter hates it so, I, completely dumbfounded, tried it myself; I think they put xylitol or something in it now so it has this weird taste to it  FreudianSlippers posted:If you want to extend the lifetime of your old harddrive rub it thoroughly with the strongest magnet you can find. This loosens up the internals and makes it run smoother and longer. Do this to any floppy disk and you’ll double its storage capacity, triple if it’s a tape cassette
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Everyone knows about magnet greasing their hard drives and floppies to make them work better. It's almost 2024!
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You can just say you like The Presidents of the United States of America, it's not against the law
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We called em deathstars.
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LookieLoo posted:We called em deathstars. 
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drat horror queefs posted:It basically forgets to be a satire after, like, the fifth chapter though. It's been like uh 1998 when I read it but wasn't this character like 15 years old as well? Even at the time that stuck me as iffy because I was the same age.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:It's been like uh 1998 when I read it but wasn't this character like 15 years old as well? Even at the time that stuck me as iffy because I was the same age. yeah, the book is quite gross and it's not even interesting to read nowadays, it's like a parody of itself now
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I mean it's true But they never, ever were, unless THEY were shareholders as well which lol
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Dabir posted:what's this about Albert Hoffman was researching ergot (a fungus) and accidentally ingested some, leading to the discovery of LSD.
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Dabir posted:what's this about Ergot and Hofmann Edit: beaten by a more thorough explanation
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He goes on to say that there needs to be therapists in the C suite and managers need to better connect with their employees, to learn what motivates them (hint: it’s a livable wage), to to have empathy or whatever; it’s a start I guess? in that it’s more than just saying “hey pizza party this Friday” but it’s just a bunch of hollow platitudes, too little too late and all that
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zoux posted:
Where's the The Onion logo?
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mystes posted:Is there some mythical period in the past when employees were motivated by making money for shareholders? No
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mystes posted:Is there some mythical period in the past when employees were motivated by making money for shareholders? I imagine such a period exists in the minds of many shareholders.
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mystes posted:Is there some mythical period in the past when employees were motivated by making money for shareholders? Well historically the idea of shareholders was primarily people who believed in the company and worked hard to make it better i.e the employees. As a result they would be the primary beneficiaries if things were going well. This of course might be a good idea so has long since faded into irrelevance. In conclusion, capitalism is a land of contracts.
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mystes posted:Is there some mythical period in the past when employees were motivated by making money for shareholders? Was there every a time that workers cooperatives were more widespread?
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top notch clickbait right there "High up in the business world, where decisions can be molded and shaped by the needs and demands of major investors and shareholders, it can be easy to forget that, well, most average people don't really care about that, Panera's founder says."
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mystes posted:Is there some mythical period in the past when employees were motivated by making money for shareholders? Dodge vs Ford maybe when the Dodge brothers wanted to make enough money from the Ford dividends to start Dodge
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minato posted:Albert Hoffman was researching ergot (a fungus) and accidentally ingested some, leading to the discovery of LSD.
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FTA: "I always say that therapists belong in the C-suite," Shaich wrote in his book, "Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations." Because they can afford it thanks to screwing over their labor who need it more and can't. Maybe the "C-suite" are the useless loving leeches here. "So much of what running a business is about is figuring out 'how do I connect with people?'" Shaich told BI. "What motivates them, and how do I help them decide to affiliate with what the mission of the enterprise is?" Jesus loving Christ. NOBODY wants to be told that their time away from family and the physical and mental pain they put up with daily are only to make *a faceless, nameless group of people richer* and not themselves, so you have to spice it up with bullshit like "wE'rE cHaNgInG tHe WoRlD!1!!" And we're right back to corpos as cults. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gg4_4GIEg
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root beer posted:He goes on to say that there needs to be therapists in the C suite and managers need to better connect with their employees, to learn what motivates them (hint: it’s a livable wage), to to have empathy or whatever; it’s a start I guess? in that it’s more than just saying “hey pizza party this Friday” but it’s just a bunch of hollow platitudes, too little too late and all that more like trying to understand what motivates the employees, so they can better convince them that appeasing shareholders is somehow in line with that
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My bosses actually care about their employees and customers and their problems, but I'm pretty sure this is a major cause of the company not being very successful. Turns out that cutting costs and lying to sell poo poo is much better business than actually making good products by involving the employees.
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minato posted:Albert Hoffman was researching ergot (a fungus) and accidentally ingested some, leading to the discovery of LSD. PBUH
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There's an actual religious cult (allegedly) that formed around a chain restaurant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_communities
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Everyone should lick ergot fungus this is good advice. Put it in your tacos!
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euphronius posted:They could give the shares to the employees I enjoyed in Office Space when the Bobs asked Peter if some kind of profit sharing/stock reward thing would help him give a gently caress about his job and he was like "iunno, maybe". In my experience companies that do anything like that make sure all the employees shares/profits combined are a fraction of what the C-suite, board of directors, and real shareholders get and it's really just a "benefit" they throw at you instead of a raise (and can write off themselves while you pay taxes on it) Even "worker-owned co-operatives" like REI can and do gently caress over their employees with poo poo wages and benefits, and I bet just one of those vest-wearing grunts selling $200 pants and $600 coats makes more profit for the company than whatever the guys in suits do.
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euphronius posted:They could give the shares to the employees I heard it here so grain of salt but apparently old man Walton did used to give long term walmart employees stock so that they wouldnt retire entirely destitute. It's kinda lame that you'd have to work there a long rear end time probably but it's so much less ridiculous than most poo poo these days that I can hardly conceive of it. Then he croaked and his rotten kids got ahold of things,
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